Dr. Abdulrahman Hariri

Entrepreneur in the making

Social Impact in Numbers

Scientific Research Awareness: my scientific research educational platform continues to attract millions of visits. Nearly half a million Facebook Fans from over 45+ countries. Over 64000 Twitter followers.

Entrepreneurship:

Teaching +8000 trainees through my online video course on the basics of entrepreneurship

Actively participated in training over 1500 scholarship students in the UK in areas related to innovation and entrepreneurship through workshops and lectures.

Mentoring: mentored and helped provide guidance for hundreds of students who are finding difficulties in starting their business or research careers.

Skills

Entrepreneurship

Founder & President of Innovation Ventures. Co-founded some successful companies in the past and in the process of founding others. Instructor of the Entrepreneurship Basics online video course & author of the Startup Idea Discovery book (Both in Arabic).

Startup Mentor

For years I have been mentoring and guiding a lot of students and people who were thinking of starting their businesses.

Social Media Marketing

Personally grew my research initiative social following to over half a million fans.

Research

Awarded two excellence in research awards from the Saudi Cultural Beureu in the United Kingdom for research activities while doing my PhD.

Public Speaking

I've had the pleasure and honour to speak at some excellent innovation & entrepreneurship related events.

Teaching

I've run several workshops and lectures on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Social Media Marketing.

E-Learning

From YouTube educational videos, Writing content to educate and teach, to creating full interactive educational video courses and much more...

Summary

Author of the widely successful Startup Idea Discovery book (Arabic book) with an Agreement with Saudi Aramco to print 1million copies of it.

Passionate about continuous self-learning, creating social impact. Helped educate tens of thousands in the areas of entrepreneurship & scientific research through my online learning platforms.

Entrepreneurial efforts

Mntrni: A mentoring platform connecting entrepreneurs with mentors to facilitate the exchange of knowledge & expertise. The platform is in it's beta testing stage with a good public reception and a growing number of mentors requesting to join. Already delivered +3500 mentoring minutes.

Startupideavalidation.com: An educational website (+7500 registered members) teaching the basics of entrepreneurship and sharing great lessons and experiences through video courses, resources, and articles.

Educad.me: A scientific research education platform (+25000 registered members and half a million social followers) helping early researchers in understanding the basics of scientific research. The platform is aiming to monazite by offering subscription access to a wide range of online video courses.

IEStartup, Makkah (2014): I ran a workshop on getting innovative ideas to market with a few colleaguesfor a number of inventors from Umm AlQura University, to help them think and plan the commercialization stage of their innovations which are being patented.

Sep 2009Present

Founder

Educad.me (Formerly DrHariri Research Blog) is an online education startup aiming to educate and spread the awareness of scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by publishing online interactive courses, articles, and resources through it's online platform. With over half a million following the Facebook page alone and thousands of registrations since the beta launch, Educad.me strives to change the shape of education in the MENA region for the better in the next two years. Courses and resources are in Arabic.

Feb 2015Feb 2016

Deputy General Manager of the Quality Management Administration

King Abdulaziz University

We oversee the development of proper quality assurance and quality management & improvement systems and approaches within the university while working as consultants with all the departments within the university.

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Founder

Pitch 2 Mentor Social Initiative

Mentoring entrepreneurs in the MENA in areas related to IT, Social Media Marketing, and idea testing/validation.

Education

Jan 2010Jan 2014

PhD in Engineering (Diffusion of Innovation)

I've done my PhD at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), one of the leading research groups around the world with strong ties with the business world (Jaguar, Range Rover, Tata, Formula one). The University of Warwick is one of the top UK universities, consistently being ranked as one of the top 5 or top 10 universities in the UK.

My thesis discussed the topic of innovation diffusion with an application/validation of an adoption model within the UK higher education sector.

Jan 2008Jan 2009

MSc in Business Excellence (Engineering)

Subjects studied included Six Sigma, EFQM, Leadership, Project Management, e-Business, e-CRM. The final dissertation was a study on the implementation of Six Sigma in Saudi Arabian Organizations. I got distinction on the dissertation for its quality.